Pakistan – General Election 2024

February 9, 2024

Pakistan

General Election 2024

Padmini Arhant

When democracy is shackled with ban, state authorized arrests of party workers, peace activists including women denied bail in direct violation of Pakistan’s explicit constitutional right granted to women held on any charges, journalists, prohibition of candidates to contest election in a free and fair manner as elections are meant to be in a real functional democracy,

These developments blatantly subvert democracy.

Simultaneously, the political party PTI with popular support and great anticipation is denied equal opportunity with the founder and party leader, the former Prime Minister Imran Khan imprisoned with seemingly politically motivated assortments of disproportionate charges.

The culmination of state crackdown on PTI and nationwide ban on the party in contesting the national and provincial election in 2024 has led to the electorate verdict that appears in favor of the political party PTI of Pakistan.

The latest poll results according to Pakistan and international news reports show the former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s PTI represented by the independent candidates in the lead with 99 seats right now leaving other two major contenders – PML- N and PPP fairly behind by a margin of 30 and 46 seats respectively thus far.

The PTI representation through independent candidates is a situation arising from undemocratic unconstitutional elimination of a largest national party such as PTI from the polls including removal of PTI party symbol, the cricket bat from the ballot paper blocking viable choices to the vast electorate considering Pakistan’s significant rural voters and urban disadvantaged lacking in higher literacy exercise their voting right by recognizing and associating the party symbol with the candidate.

The PTI is relevantly represented by the majority electorate in the current polls 2024 and as a result, the political leader Imran Khan return to power honoring electoral mandate would be the legitimate process to restore democracy in Pakistan.

More on this subject and other issues related to Pakistan mentioned earlier in the previous topic will be presented in due course.

Padmini Arhant 

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